Course requirements and grading
Required Texts
Class Schedule

Course requirements and grading  <top>

Regular attendance and timely completion of all assignments is required.

25%	Read the assigned material, do homework, participate in class discussions
25%	Group Projects
10%	Essay 1
20%	Essay 2
20%	Essay 3

Required Texts <top>

Bruce L. Berg. 2001. Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences. 4th ed.,Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon (available at the Odyssey).

Xerox readers (available in the Merrill House library).

Class Schedule <top>

Week 1. Introduction

Tuesday 01/29

• Check out the website. Suggetions gratefully accepted.

Week 2. The idea of community

Tuesday 020/3

• Berg Ch. 1; Baumann "Preface" & "The Agony of Tantalus".
• Hobsbawm "Inventing Traditions".
• MHC Archives web site.

Thursday 02/05

• Introduction to the archives
• H1 (due 02/13).

Week 3. Memory and community

Tuesday 02/10

• Berg Ch. 8.
• Durkheim "The Elementary Forms...."
• Schwarz "Two Faces of Collective Memory."
• Recommended: Halbwachs "The Social Frameworks of Memory"; Coser "Introduction."

Thursday 02/12

• Introduction to other archival sources and the archives website.
• H2 (due 02/20).
• HAND OUT ESSAY 1 (DUE 02/23).

Saturday 02/14

• CBL workshop

Week 4. Introducing the class of 1955

Tuesday 02/17

• Berg Ch. 2.
• Alford "Designing a Research Project."

Thursday 02/19

• GROUP PROJECT 1: Mapping the class

Week 5. Remembering the class of 1955

Tuesday 02/24

• Mount Holyoke Class of 1955 25th Reunion

Thursday 02/26

• Mount Holyoke Class of 1955 40th Reunion
• HAND OUT ESSAY 2 (DUE 03/22).

Week 6. Introduction to interviewing

Tuesday 03/2

• Berg Ch. 4.
• Spradley "Interviewing an Informant."

Thursday 03/04

• Berg Ch. 3.
• Shea "Don't Talk to the Humans."
• H3 (due 03/12).

Week 7. Begin interviewing

Tuesday 03/09

• Jackson "Interviewing".
• Spradley, "Asking Descriptive Questions".
• Berg Ch. 9.

Thursday 03/11

• Introduction to oral history at the archives.
• H4 (due 03/26).

MIDTERM BREAK 03/13 - 03/21

Week 8. The Alumnae Association's oral history project

Tuesday 03/23

• Hoopes, pp. 33-58.
• Oral history at the archives

Thursday 03/25

• Hoopes, pp. 61-120.
• Oral history at the archives.
• H5 (due 04/02).

Week 9. Doing oral history

Tuesday 03/30

• Berg Ch. 5

Thursday 04/01

• GROUP PROJECT 2. Researching the class.
• HAND OUT ESSAY 3, DUE END OF SEMESTER

Week 10. ...continued

Tuesday 04/06

• Berg Ch. 10

Thursday 04/08

• Preparing to meet the alums.

Week 11. De-briefing

Tuesday 04/13

• Berg Ch. 12.
• De-briefing on collective meeting.

Thursday 04/15

• GROUP PROJECT 3: Transcription of collective meeting. Linking essays
  already written. Reporting back to the archives and the class of 1955.

Week 12. Processing

Tuesday 04/20

• Watching video/transcription.

Thurs 04/23

• Watching video/transcription.

Week 13. CBL review. Representing our own history

Tuesday 04/27

• Review with the archives.

Thursday 04/29

• Commitments: research artifacts? The reunion in 2005?

Week 14. Taking care of details

Tuesday 05/04

• Organize final final assignments. Present final projects.